Leah Chapman Literature & Elementary Reading Task 8 Annotated List of Multicultural Books Craighead George‚ Jean. Julie of the wolves. Harper Publishers. 1972. New York‚ NY. Julie of the Wolves is a fiction novel that would be appropriate from children ages 10-14‚ or grades 5-8. It is a captivating tale about a young Eskimo girl who runs away from home and finds herself lost in the Alaskan tundra. The story depicts Julie’s fight for survival as well as the fight within herself. She
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girls‚ and drugs. My book The Heroin Diaries A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx and Ian Gittins takes you through the experiences of rock star Nikki Sixx and his drug addictions. The title of this book has 3 most important parts of it that describe the book; Heroin Diaries‚ A year in the life‚ and shattered rock star. The first part of the title Heroin Diaries is a very accurate description of the book. Firstly‚ with the heroin use throughout the book. Nikki Sixx the main
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“A book is a gift you can open again and again‚” wrote Garrison Keillor. People read all the time. They read for information‚ for escape‚ for entertainment‚ for instruction‚ for guidance. They read recipes and tweets and texts. They read newspapers‚ blogs‚ and Facebook replies. In a recent survey by Pew Research‚ the number of people who actually read a book in the past year was 72 percent in 2015. I am one of those. As I consider my reading experiences‚ I realize they represent the journey I have
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]Welcome to www.spycampstuartgibbs.weebly.com HOME SUMMARY IF YOU LIKE THE BOOK... ARE YOU A TRUE SPY? BLOG BOOK INFO LINKS In the beginning of Spy Camp‚ Benjamin Ripley‚ who is a twelve year old boy‚ thinks he is leaving Spy School and is going to have the most normal and happy summer ever. That is when he is told about Spy Camp. He has to attend Spy Camp throughout the whole summer! So much for a normal and happy summer. When packing up his belongings‚ Ben sees that he has received a note
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For my Student Choice Book Report assignment‚ I read the book “Good to Great” by Jim Collins. Jim Collins‚ put the book together along with the contributions and collaborations of the Good to Great research team. The main purpose of the book was about the following question; “Can a good company become a great company and‚ if so‚ how?” (pg. 5). Jim and the research team have answered this question in a couple of different categories of disciplined. I picked two of them people‚ and thought. The first
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Book report: ”Forrest Gump” 1) You have read about several events and situation in the book you have chosen. Do you think that any of these events or situation could happen in your country today? Explain why or why not with reference to the book itself. I think that it´s totally possible that some of the situations in the book could happen in Sweden. For example nowadays bullying is a very common problem in almost all the schools‚ not only in Sweden but the whole world. The way that Forrest
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and private life matters. This book highlighted the importance of family and demonstrated the common experiences everyone goes through with growing up. It was nice of them to share their personal stories‚ I mostly loved it because with most of their issues I could relate to‚ and being able to relate to something always makes it easier to comprehend. The colorful pages are jam packed with photos from childhood and beyond‚ there are some major messages from this book that grabbed me some are ‘to just
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Among the Hidden In the book Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix is about the Governments rules and restrictions about having more then two children and in this essay I’m going to describe the three characters and how they resisted the Government. The book Among the Hidden is about Government controlling the population by limited the number of children people can have and how one boy Luke survives bing hidden in his house his whole life. I’m going to write about three main characters and
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August 21‚ 2012 The Autobiography of Malcolm X: Book Report One of the most prominent names surrounding the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who used non-violent protests to fight for the equality of Afro-Americans. In the non-fiction book The Autobiography of Malcolm X: as told to Alex Hayley‚ which was published by Ballantine Books of The Random House Publishing Group in 1973‚ we are taken on a revealing‚ 466 page‚ journey through the life of “The angriest black man
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Good to Great Book Report The ideas that are given in this book will stimulated my mind into becoming a leader and perhaps enabled me to bring my company ahead of the competitors. It was amazing to see how Collins spent nearly five years in comparing the mediocre companies with great companies. One most notable difference is on how the level 5 leader responds to each situation that the company faces. This book will helped me to understand that if a company becomes big‚ its not because of the skilled
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